In Reply to: Faith got's nothing to do with it! posted by the old school on July 9, 2012 at 21:47:26:
Your blind tests are not blind enough. Unless you run a series of double-blind, level-matched ABX tests, blind AB tests like you describe are just as unscientific, just as haphazard, just as flawed as sighted listening. They give the semblance of science, but are merely 'sciency'.
If a job worth's doing, it's worth doing properly, or not at all.
I'm reasonably sure you are performing blind AB tests instead of double-blind, level-matched ABX tests because you are getting results that point to differences between amplifiers, which according to every legitimately scientific test, simply don't exist. This is the only no-faith position to hold in audio; I tried it, and it's a musically unsatisfying place and totally removed from the kind of results you get.
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- Well, no - Gag Halfrunt 12:38:10 07/10/12 (11)
- RE: Well, no - josh358 17:11:14 07/12/12 (0)
- RE: Well, no - RGA 02:53:29 07/11/12 (7)
- RE: Well, no - josh358 17:32:09 07/12/12 (0)
- Excellent post... - mkuller 11:53:55 07/11/12 (1)
- RE: Excellent post... - RGA 17:07:45 07/11/12 (0)
- RE: Well, no - rick_m 06:58:51 07/11/12 (1)
- RE: Well, no - RGA 08:58:51 07/11/12 (0)
- RE: Well, no - bjh 06:43:31 07/11/12 (1)
- RE: Well, no - RGA 08:53:27 07/11/12 (0)
- Don't exist... - mkuller 20:48:15 07/10/12 (0)
- RE: Well, no - the old school 20:34:06 07/10/12 (0)